Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cripps family was long on M.P.s (Stafford is the ninth of his line to sit in the House of Commons) and lawyers (both his father and grandfather were at the bar). But young Stafford's quick mind first turned to science. He loved to take the family car to pieces and put it together again. After his schooling at Winchester, a near-perfect examination paper in science won him a scholarship to New College, Oxford, and a job on the research staff of Sir William Ramsay at the University of London...
...sophomores, it appears, came out on top of the struggle this year. Their victory in the "cane spree" finals earned them the right to sit on the Princeton side of the field during a football contest with a certain Connecticut college next Saturday. But the Freshmen can doff the dinks by beating their New Haven counterparts, the Daily Princetonian informs...
While Bingham settled the problem of whether dated undergraduates might sit in good seats at the Yale game, Frank A. Lundon, head of the H.A.A. ticket office, yesterday disclosed that plenty of seats would be available. "We will be able to fill all undergraduate and alumni applications now in our hands and we are still accepting more," Lunden said...
...They had no way of knowing that the ticket plan will be changed," Bingham explained," and under the old rules they would be entitled to sit in the cheering section. Next year single alumni seats will come under alumni class regulations." Lunden said that, in any case, only 300 applications would come under this classification for the Yale game...
...unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...